Example sentences of "and more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | More people travel further and more easily than ever before . |
2 | SPF ( which measures UVB protection ) is still the first priority as UVB rays are more dangerous , causing damage more quickly and more easily than UVA . |
3 | Travellers along the other road would recognise that , for the historical reasons identified by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 , equity has in the past treated married women differently and more tenderly than other third parties who provide security for the debts of others . |
4 | Comparative sensitivity of different imaging techniques in detecting gall stone recurrence — Ultrasound detected gall stone recurrence earlier and more frequently than did either the trial criteria or oral cholecystectography alone ( Fig 3 ) . |
5 | A mood which seems to be slipped into more and more frequently as the months have elapsed since they first met . |
6 | We met more and more frequently as the months went by , until we had more drafts than the windows of a stone cottage . |
7 | The job description should be reviewed annually , and more frequently if circumstances so require and where necessary amended , subject to any agreed requirements of consultation and notice and have regard to the teacher 's previous role , experience and potential . |
8 | Perhaps he did not touch her very deeply but he did not shock her either , her body moving easily , without apprehension , beneath his ; her mind remaining open to the possibility of sensation , observing his pleasure with affection — glad that he should have it — yet wondering more and more frequently if a similar capacity for such joyful sensuality lay concealed somewhere within herself . |
9 | Under the scheme , discussions with appraisers are held every five years , and more frequently if requested by appraisers or appraisees . |
10 | They 'd seen each other fairly regularly since , but more and more competitively as time went on . |
11 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
12 | But it has to be said that he tried more consistently and more self-consciously than most political leaders to insulate himself from external pressures and to personalize decision-making . |
13 | In a long historical perspective , and more particularly since the rise of industrial capitalism , there has obviously been — accompanying the growth and internal differentiation of societies — an increase in the scale of government , in the degree of political intervention in the general conduct of social life and in organized political activity ; a growth of bureaucratic administration ; and the formation of a distinctive , now predominant type of political unit — the nation state . |
14 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |
15 | Here we have , albeit speculatively ( and more baldly than most specialists would dare ) , the distributions and dispersals of archaic populations and so a geographical history of human populations throughout the world . |
16 | In your first few hours in a new place , while you 're still dazed , before you can even really believe you 've arrived , you see it more vividly and more clearly than you ever will again . |
17 | Now despite years of steady disarmament they 're all talking about nuclear war again , and more intensely than ever before . |
18 | Their plans have come to fruition rather sooner and more dramatically than expected . |
19 | If we make mistakes we will be punished more quickly and more effectively than any Northern Hemisphere team could equal . |
20 | According to the study , the means-tested benefit is reaching its targets more often and more effectively than many had feared . |
21 | IF the explanation of the evolution and distribution of the lion , tiger and leopard is correct , then the leopard spread out further and more successfully than the other two members of its genus . |
22 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |
23 | And more importantly than that , what was a Pakistani doing in a position of power and influence in a publishing house ? |
24 | ‘ They will give us nothing without a problem on Saturday and every mistake we make will be punished more quickly and more heavily than any Five Nations opponents would manage . ’ |
25 | And in the end the nautiloids even survived the ammonites , the molluscan group that evolved more rapidly and more spectacularly than any other . |
26 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
27 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
28 | The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook . |
29 | She answers him sternly and literally , but talks a great deal more and more fluently than usual . |
30 | But now more and more maybe cos they 're taking early retirement or getting made redundant I mean it 's the fellers is n't it ? |